Drop Zone 2
Drop Zone was a good action film. Shame a sequel was never made or considered with Wesley Snipes reprising his role as Pete Nessip.
shareIf it had. What would had Drop Zone 2 been about?
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If they ever did a sequel. It would have to be filmed in 3D.
shareSnipes would never have returned to play this ‘character’, but I could have imagined a straight to video ‘Drop Zone 2: Swoop’ a low budget spin-off in which Swoop and a team of young skydivers face off against yet more random skydiving villains.
I watched this film for the first time tonight. No idea how it escaped my notice for so long because it definitely is the kind of film I'd have gone for when I was young.
I loved the first 30 minutes or so. It had a certain quintessential 90s quality that I instantly appreciated and the hijacking scene in the plane is pretty rad. The film slowly seems to lose its way after that though until by the end the plot feels muddy and unfocused.
After the film's opening I was definitely looking forward to where the movie was going to go but by the end I was disappointed. Also, the soundtrack sucks.
My guess is that Drop Zone was meant to capitalize on the success of Point Break, which popularized sky diving for a time. After doing some reading I learned that another sky diving movie, the Charlie Sheen vehicle Terminal Velocity, also came out the same year.
I think the first sky diving movie around this time period was Fandango in 1985... then Point Break... Followed by Drop Zone and then Terminal Velocity... It was as if studios were all trying to out do each other on sky diving movies.
shareFandango I have not seen, but if it was released in 1985 then that's six years before Point Break. If PB was trying to capitalize on its popularity then they certainly dragged their heels doing it.
Studios do like to try to jump on bandwagons though.
Fandango probably had the least amount of diving, and really both Fandango and Point Break weren't focused on skydiving as much as it was simply something that was tossed into the movie. Drop Zone was pretty much all the marble on diving, which was probably what killed the movie. It focused so much on capturing diving stunts that it kind of lost focus on the story which became a bit of an afterthought.
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